DISTRIBUTION OF BIRDS IN THE SOCIETY'S MUSEUM, 21 



the forests of the Gangaboda and Hinidura Pattus and Kukulu 

 and Morowak Korales, as regards the south of the Island ; 

 throughout all the coffee districts and highest hills of the Central 

 Province, and in the great forests between the north road and 

 Trincomalee. 



21. Pelargopsis Gurial, Pearson.— The Cape King-fisher, 

 Buff-breasted King-fisher. Mali a Pilihudua, Sink. ; vide Holds- 

 worth's Catalogue Ceylon Birds, P.Z.S. 1872, No. 54; Halcyon 

 Capensis, Linn. — Layard, Annals Natural History, 1853, page 

 171 ; Kelaart, Prodromus Fauna3 Zeylanica, page 119. 



Throughout the low country wherever there is water. In the 

 Western Province it is found about Bolgoda Lake and up the 

 Kalu Ganga ; in the Southern Province it is abundant on the 

 Gindurah and Nilwelle rivers, extending to the foot of the hills; 

 numerous on all tanks of the Eastern Province and about all the 

 swamps and inland waters of the Northern Province, from 

 Trincomalee to Anuradhapura ; abundant about Batticaloa, accord- 

 ing to Lay aid. 



22. Halcyon Smyrnensis, Linn.— The Smyrna King- 

 fisher, White-breasted King-fisher. Pilihudua, Sink, — Layard, 

 Annals Natural History, 1853, page 172. 



Common throughout the low country, extending into the hills to 

 4,000 feet, and Kelaart includes it in his Nuwara Eliya list of birds 

 (Prodromus Faunas Zeylanica) ; abundant in the Western and 

 Southern Provinces, occurring in the Morowak Korale sparingly, 

 not so numerous in the south-east. 



23. Alcedo Bengalensis, Gmelin. — The Indian King- 

 fisher, Little King-fisher. Pilihudua, Sink. 



Distributed throughout the whole Island, extending into the Central 

 Province to the plains of Nuwara Lliya, very abundant about 

 paddy fields, rivers and streams in the Western and Southern 

 Provinces, and less numerous in the south-eastern district; 

 plentiful in the Northern Province and in the neighbourhood of 

 Trincomalee ; common close to Galle ; believed may at times be 

 seen on the rocks at the entrance to the Dutch Canal ; occurs in 

 Colombo lake in numbers. 



24. Ceryle Budis, Linn. — The Pied King-fisher— Layard, 

 Annals Natural History, 1853, page 172. 



Numerous on canals, streams, and the stiller parts of rivers in the 

 Southern Province, extending inland to the foot of the hills ; 

 tolerably frequent in the Western Province, at Kalutara, near 

 Bentota, on Bolgoda lake, and the like spots ; found on the salt 

 lagoons of the Hambantota and Trincomalee districts. In the 



